the anatomy of temptation
Ma#hew 26:41, Watch and pray that you may not enter into tempta1on. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Every great and pressing tempta0on has its hour, a season where it grows to a head, where it is most vigorous, ac0ve, opera0ve, and prevalent. It may be long in rising… but…it has a dangerous hour; when most men will enter into it. Hence that very tempta0on, which at one 0me has li>le or no power on a man—he can despise it, scorn the mo0ons of it, easily resist it—at another, bears him away silent before it… How can we recognize when a tempta0on has come to its hour? A tempta0on has come to its hour when it is restless, urgent, and arguing. It is a 0me of ba>le, and sin
will give the soul no rest. Satan sees his advantage, the convergence of his forces, and knows that he must prevail, or be hopeless forever. Satan pushes this opportunity and 0me of advantage with special pleas and promises. He has taken some ground in his arguments, and seeks to gain more. He reminds us of a full pardon aFer the sin. He realizes that if he does not win now he will lose the opportunity….When a tempta0on presses in upon us through our imagina0on and reason, and when opportuni0es and advantages press us on the outside, we may know that the hour of its power has come. John Owen
2 Samuel 11:1-‐2, In the spring of the year, the 1me when kings go out to ba>le, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2 It happened, late one aFernoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beau1ful.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision. -‐ desire.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision. -‐ desire. -‐ imagina1on.
It may be when first it began to press upon the soul, the soul was amazed with the ugly appearance if what it aimed at, and cried, “Am I a dog?” If this indigna1on be not daily heightened, but the soul, by conversing with the evil, begins to grow familiar with it, not to be startled as formerly, but rather inclines to cry, “Is it not a li>le one?” then the tempta1on is coming toward its high noon; lust has then en1ced and entangled, and is ready to “conceive” (James 1:15)… John Owen
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision. -‐ desire. -‐ imagina1on. -‐ occasion.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision. -‐ desire. -‐ imagina1on. -‐ occasion. -‐ ac1on.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION. -‐ What Joseph did.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION. -‐ What Joseph did. -‐ Why Joseph did it.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION. -‐ What Joseph did. -‐ Why Joseph did it. -‐ How Joseph did it.
Store up Gospel provisions to keep the heart full of a sense of God's love in Christ, and His love in the shedding of it; get a relish of the privileges we have thereby– our adop1on, our jus1fica1on, our acceptance with God. Fill the heart with thoughts of the beauty of His death– and you will, in an ordinary course of walking with God, have great peace and security as to the disturbance of tempta1ons. John Owen
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION. 3: THE LONG LOOK OF TEMPTATION.
Every great and pressing tempta0on has its hour, a season where it grows to a head, where it is most vigorous, ac0ve, opera0ve, and prevalent. It may be long in rising… but…it has a dangerous hour; when most men will enter into it. Hence that very tempta0on, which at one 0me has li>le or no power on a man—he can despise it, scorn the mo0ons of it, easily resist it—at another, bears him away silent before it… How can we recognize when a tempta0on has come to its hour? A tempta0on has come to its hour when it is restless, urgent, and arguing. It is a 0me of ba>le, and sin
will give the soul no rest. Satan sees his advantage, the convergence of his forces, and knows that he must prevail, or be hopeless forever. Satan pushes this opportunity and 0me of advantage with special pleas and promises. He has taken some ground in his arguments, and seeks to gain more. He reminds us of a full pardon aFer the sin. He realizes that if he does not win now he will lose the opportunity….When a tempta0on presses in upon us through our imagina0on and reason, and when opportuni0es and advantages press us on the outside, we may know that the hour of its power has come. John Owen
2 Samuel 11:1-‐2, In the spring of the year, the 1me when kings go out to ba>le, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2 It happened, late one aFernoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beau1ful.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision. -‐ desire.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision. -‐ desire. -‐ imagina1on.
It may be when first it began to press upon the soul, the soul was amazed with the ugly appearance if what it aimed at, and cried, “Am I a dog?” If this indigna1on be not daily heightened, but the soul, by conversing with the evil, begins to grow familiar with it, not to be startled as formerly, but rather inclines to cry, “Is it not a li>le one?” then the tempta1on is coming toward its high noon; lust has then en1ced and entangled, and is ready to “conceive” (James 1:15)… John Owen
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision. -‐ desire. -‐ imagina1on. -‐ occasion.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. -‐ vision. -‐ desire. -‐ imagina1on. -‐ occasion. -‐ ac1on.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION. -‐ What Joseph did.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION. -‐ What Joseph did. -‐ Why Joseph did it.
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION. -‐ What Joseph did. -‐ Why Joseph did it. -‐ How Joseph did it.
Store up Gospel provisions to keep the heart full of a sense of God's love in Christ, and His love in the shedding of it; get a relish of the privileges we have thereby– our adop1on, our jus1fica1on, our acceptance with God. Fill the heart with thoughts of the beauty of His death– and you will, in an ordinary course of walking with God, have great peace and security as to the disturbance of tempta1ons. John Owen
TEMPTATION 1: THE ANATOMY OF TEMPTATION. 2: TURNING FROM TEMPTATION. 3: THE LONG LOOK OF TEMPTATION.
